PhilipWoods, Pasajero del vuelo MH370 de Malasia, envió una imagen y texto pidiendo AUXILIO, desde la isla "Diego Garcia".
Philip Woods, Passenger On Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Posts Image From island "Diego Garcia" asking for HELP.
A black photo has surfaced, allegedly taken by Philip Wood, an AmericanIBM engineer on the flight.
The image, which appears black, was taken in a dark cell by the IBM engineer. The picture is black because the cell was too dark, but a critical piece of information was embedded in the Exif data, the coordinates to Diego Garcia, where the picture was taken. And it's real, this is not a hoax.
CLICK HERE TO VIEWPHOTO: http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/1395192158752.jpg
The coordinates in the picture indicate that the photo was taken within 3 miles of what Google officially gives for Diego Garcia.
The picture was posted with the following text:
"I have been held hostage by unknown military personal after my flight was hijacked."
"I work for IBM and managed to hide my cellphone during the hijack. I have been separated from the rest of the passengers, and I am in a cell. My name is Philip Wood. I think I have been drugged as well and cannot think clearly."
The Exif is intact. Exif data gets embedded in every image by every camera, and includes the circumstances under which the photo was taken.
It can be viewed by saving the image to your desktop, and then right clicking it and selecting image properties.
Hit the details tab. You can see that the image was taken on March 18 with an Iphone 5, with the ISO at 3200 and a shutter of 1/15. The coordinates are included in the exif data because the Iphone knows where it is, and the coordinates are for Diego Garcia.
Exif can't be rewritten with common software, it can only be added to in fields such as image credits with some advanced applications.
It can be erased as well but not changed. Photos with the exif intact will hold up in court.
If the Exif is hacked and this is not real, the CIA or a really good hacker did this, which I doubt, I'd say it's probably real.
Type the following coordinates into google earth: 72 25.59265E, 7 18.9713S
FUENTES; (SOURCE):
http://extranotix.blogspot.mx/2014/04/pasajero-del-vuelo-mh370-envio-una.html
http://www.alien-disclosure-group.com/#/philip-wood-ibm-engineer-on-f/4583749488
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'Stealing A Nation' (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by British Governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base. The tragedy, which falls within the remit of the International Criminal Court as "a crime against humanity", is told by Islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and by British officials who left behind a damning trail of Foreign Office documents.
Before the Americans came, more than 2,000 people lived on the islands in the Indian Ocean, many with roots back to the late 18th century. There were thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a railway and an undisturbed way of life. The islands were, and still are, a British crown colony. In the 1960s, the government of Harold Wilson struck a secret deal with the United States to hand over the main island of Diego Garcia. The Americans demanded that the surrounding islands be "swept" and "sanitized". Unknown to Parliament and to the US Congress and in breach of the United Nations Charter, the British Government plotted with Washington to expel the entire population.
After demonstrating on the streets of Mauritius in 1982, the exiled islanders were given the derisory compensation of less than £3,000 per person by the British government. In the film, former inhabitants Rita Bancoult and Charlesia Alexis tell of how, in accepting the money, they were tricked into signing away their right to return home: "It was entirely improper, unethical, dictatorial to have the Chagossian put their thumbprint on an English legal, drafted document, where the Chagossian, who doesn’t read, know or speak any English, let alone any legal English, is made to renounce basically all his rights as a human being."
Today, the main island of Diego Garcia is America's largest military base in the world, outside the US. There are more than 4,000 troops, two bomber runways, thirty warships and a satellite spy station. The Pentagon calls it an "indispensable platform" for policing the world. It was used as a launch pad for the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.
The truth about the removal of the Chagossians and the Whitehall conspiracy to deny there was an indigenous population did not emerge for another twenty years, when files were unearthed at the Public Record Office, in Kew, by the historian Mark Curtis, John Pilger and lawyers for the former inhabitants of the coral archipelago, who were campaigning for a return to their homeland.
John Pilger first become aware of the plight of the Chagossians in 1982, during the Falklands War: "It was pointed out to me that Britain had sent a fleet to go and save two thousand Falkland Islanders at the other end of the world while two thousand British citizens in islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean had been expelled by British governments and the only difference was that one lot were white and the others were black. The other difference was that the United States wanted the Chagos Islands - and especially Diego Garcia - as a major base. So nothing was said, which tells us something about the ruthlessness of governments, especially imperial governments."

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1. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a British overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. The territory comprises the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands – many very small – amounting to a total land area of 60 square kilometres.
2. The only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors, who collectively number around 2,500 (2012 figures).
3. The removal of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago occurred between 1968 and 1973. The Chagossians, then numbering about 2,000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to build a military base there. Today, the exiled Chagossians are still trying to return, arguing that the forced expulsion and dispossession was illegal. The islands are off-limits to Chagossians, casual tourists, and the media.
4. In 1965, the United Kingdom split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches (Des Roches) from the Seychelles to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. The islands were formally established as an overseas territory of the United Kingdom on 8 November 1965. On 23 June 1976, Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches were returned to Seychelles as a result of its attaining independence. On 23 June 2017, the United Nations General Assembly voted in favour of referring the territorial dispute between Mauritius and the UK to the International Court of Justice in order to clarify the legal status of the Chagos Islands archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
5. As a territory of the United Kingdom, the head of state is Elizabeth II. There is no governor appointed to represent the Queen on the territory, as there are no longer any native inhabitants. The head of government is the commissioner and an administrator, all of whom reside in the United Kingdom. The laws of the territory are based on the constitution, which gives the Commissioner full powers to make laws for the territory. As almost all residents of the BIOT are members of the United States military, however, in practice crimes are more commonly charged under United States military law.
6. Camp Justice is a settlement within the US-UK Naval SupportFacility on Diego Garcia, a small, strategically located, isolated island in the Indian Ocean. It acts as the capital of the Overseas Territory. Starting as early as 2004 rumors began to surface that the United States had been using Diego Garcia as a black site for the detention and torture of individuals captured in the "Global War On Terror".
7. The territory is an archipelago of 55 islands, the largest being Diego Garcia, accounting for almost half of the total land area of the territory, which is 60 km². The terrain is flat and low, with most areas not exceeding 2 metres above sea level. The climate is tropical marine; hot, humid, and moderated by trade winds. In 2010 545,000 square kilometres of ocean around the islands was declared a marine reserve.
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The 10-part series highlights the stories of ordinary people going to extraordinary lengths to expose large-scale injustice: from corporations receiving lucrative government contracts for dangerous private prisons to governments using data-gathering technology to scoop up huge amounts of information about their citizens. Using probing interviews, original footage, and newly unearthed documents, the series unpacks the timely issues of security, surveillance, and profiteering in the digital age.
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Diego Garcia

Diego Garcia is an atoll located south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean. Diego Garcia is the largest of the 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago. Diego Garcia was settled by the French in the 1790s and was transferred to British rule after the Napoleonic Wars. It was one of the "Dependencies" of the British Colony of Mauritius until it was detached for inclusion in the newly created British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in 1965. Between 1968 and 1973, the population of the BIOT was removed to Mauritius and The Seychelles, following which the United States built a large naval and military base on Diego Garcia, which has been in continuous operation ever since. As of March 2015, Diego Garcia is the only inhabited island of the BIOT; the population is composed of military personnel and supporting contractors.

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia on the north, on the west by Africa, on the east by Australia, and on the south by the Southern Ocean or, depending on definition, by Antarctica. It is named after India. The Indian Ocean is known as Ratnākara (Sanskrit: रत्नाकर), "the mine of gems", in ancient Sanskrit literature and as Hind Mahāsāgar (Devanāgarī: हिन्द महासागर) in Hindi.

Diego

In today's Spanish-speaking countries, Diego and Santiago are common as given names; Diego, Santiago and Sandiego are found as surnames.
The forms Tiago, Thiago, Diago and Diogo are seen mostly in Portuguese speaking (Lusophone) countries.

History

During the medieval era, the names "Sant Yago", "Diago" and "Diego" seem to have coexisted. "Sant Yago" is used, for example, in a letter by James II of Aragon dated 1300: "[...] maestro de la cavalleria de Sant Yago et de la dita orden [...]".

In the Renaissance era, the name was Latinized as Didacus (from Greekδιδαχή (didache) "teaching").

"Diego" as a generic name or term for a Spaniard is documented from around 1615, and "dago" is used as such still in the 19th century. By the early 20th century, the term "dago" became an ethnic slur chiefly for Italian Americans, besides also for anyone of Hispanic or Portuguese descent.

Flight MH370 Is At Diego Garcia - Here's The Proof

PhilipWoods, Pasajero del vuelo MH370 de Malasia, envió una imagen y texto pidiendo AUXILIO, desde la isla "Diego Garcia".
Philip Woods, Passenger On Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Posts Image From island "Diego Garcia" asking for HELP.
A black photo has surfaced, allegedly taken by Philip Wood, an AmericanIBM engineer on the flight.
The image, which appears black, was taken in a dark cell by the IBM engineer. The picture is black because the cell was too dark, but a critical piece of information was embedded in the Exif data, the coordinates to Diego Garcia, where the picture was taken. And it's real, this is not a hoax.
CLICK HERE TO VIEWPHOTO: http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/1395192158752.jpg
The coordinates in the picture indicate that the photo was taken within 3 miles of what Google officially gives for Diego Garcia.
The picture was posted with the following text:
"I have been held hostage by unknown military personal after my flight was hijacked."
"I work for IBM and managed to hide my cellphone during the hijack. I have been separated from the rest of the passengers, and I am in a cell. My name is Philip Wood. I think I have been drugged as well and cannot think clearly."
The Exif is intact. Exif data gets embedded in every image by every camera, and includes the circumstances under which the photo was taken.
It can be viewed by saving the image to your desktop, and then right clicking it and selecting image properties.
Hit the details tab. You can see that the image was taken on March 18 with an Iphone 5, with the ISO at 3200 and a shutter of 1/15. The coordinates are included in the exif data because the Iphone knows where it is, and the coordinates are for Diego Garcia.
Exif can't be rewritten with common software, it can only be added to in fields such as image credits with some advanced applications.
It can be erased as well but not changed. Photos with the exif intact will hold up in court.
If the Exif is hacked and this is not real, the CIA or a really good hacker did this, which I doubt, I'd say it's probably real.
Type the following coordinates into google earth: 72 25.59265E, 7 18.9713S
FUENTES; (SOURCE):
http://extranotix.blogspot.mx/2014/04/pasajero-del-vuelo-mh370-envio-una.html
http://www.alien-disclosure-group.com/#/philip-wood-ibm-engineer-on-f/4583749488
http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/1395192158752.jpg
http://jimstonefreelance.com/
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Stealing a Nation - How the US Stole the Diego Garcia Island

Stealing a Nation - How the US Stole the Diego Garcia Island

Stealing a Nation - How the US Stole the Diego Garcia Island

'Stealing A Nation' (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by British Governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base. The tragedy, which falls within the remit of the International Criminal Court as "a crime against humanity", is told by Islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and by British officials who left behind a damning trail of Foreign Office documents.
Before the Americans came, more than 2,000 people lived on the islands in the Indian Ocean, many with roots back to the late 18th century. There were thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a railway and an undisturbed way of life. The islands were, and still are, a British crown colony. In the 1960s, the government of Harold Wilson struck a secret deal with the United States to hand over the main island of Diego Garcia. The Americans demanded that the surrounding islands be "swept" and "sanitized". Unknown to Parliament and to the US Congress and in breach of the United Nations Charter, the British Government plotted with Washington to expel the entire population.
After demonstrating on the streets of Mauritius in 1982, the exiled islanders were given the derisory compensation of less than £3,000 per person by the British government. In the film, former inhabitants Rita Bancoult and Charlesia Alexis tell of how, in accepting the money, they were tricked into signing away their right to return home: "It was entirely improper, unethical, dictatorial to have the Chagossian put their thumbprint on an English legal, drafted document, where the Chagossian, who doesn’t read, know or speak any English, let alone any legal English, is made to renounce basically all his rights as a human being."
Today, the main island of Diego Garcia is America's largest military base in the world, outside the US. There are more than 4,000 troops, two bomber runways, thirty warships and a satellite spy station. The Pentagon calls it an "indispensable platform" for policing the world. It was used as a launch pad for the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.
The truth about the removal of the Chagossians and the Whitehall conspiracy to deny there was an indigenous population did not emerge for another twenty years, when files were unearthed at the Public Record Office, in Kew, by the historian Mark Curtis, John Pilger and lawyers for the former inhabitants of the coral archipelago, who were campaigning for a return to their homeland.
John Pilger first become aware of the plight of the Chagossians in 1982, during the Falklands War: "It was pointed out to me that Britain had sent a fleet to go and save two thousand Falkland Islanders at the other end of the world while two thousand British citizens in islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean had been expelled by British governments and the only difference was that one lot were white and the others were black. The other difference was that the United States wanted the Chagos Islands - and especially Diego Garcia - as a major base. So nothing was said, which tells us something about the ruthlessness of governments, especially imperial governments."

7 Facts about the British Indian Ocean Territory

In this video you can find seven little known facts about the British Indian Ocean Territories. Keep watching and subscribe, as more British territories will follow!
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More information about the video content bellow:
1. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a British overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. The territory comprises the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands – many very small – amounting to a total land area of 60 square kilometres.
2. The only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors, who collectively number around 2,500 (2012 figures).
3. The removal of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago occurred between 1968 and 1973. The Chagossians, then numbering about 2,000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to build a military base there. Today, the exiled Chagossians are still trying to return, arguing that the forced expulsion and dispossession was illegal. The islands are off-limits to Chagossians, casual tourists, and the media.
4. In 1965, the United Kingdom split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches (Des Roches) from the Seychelles to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. The islands were formally established as an overseas territory of the United Kingdom on 8 November 1965. On 23 June 1976, Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches were returned to Seychelles as a result of its attaining independence. On 23 June 2017, the United Nations General Assembly voted in favour of referring the territorial dispute between Mauritius and the UK to the International Court of Justice in order to clarify the legal status of the Chagos Islands archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
5. As a territory of the United Kingdom, the head of state is Elizabeth II. There is no governor appointed to represent the Queen on the territory, as there are no longer any native inhabitants. The head of government is the commissioner and an administrator, all of whom reside in the United Kingdom. The laws of the territory are based on the constitution, which gives the Commissioner full powers to make laws for the territory. As almost all residents of the BIOT are members of the United States military, however, in practice crimes are more commonly charged under United States military law.
6. Camp Justice is a settlement within the US-UK Naval SupportFacility on Diego Garcia, a small, strategically located, isolated island in the Indian Ocean. It acts as the capital of the Overseas Territory. Starting as early as 2004 rumors began to surface that the United States had been using Diego Garcia as a black site for the detention and torture of individuals captured in the "Global War On Terror".
7. The territory is an archipelago of 55 islands, the largest being Diego Garcia, accounting for almost half of the total land area of the territory, which is 60 km². The terrain is flat and low, with most areas not exceeding 2 metres above sea level. The climate is tropical marine; hot, humid, and moderated by trade winds. In 2010 545,000 square kilometres of ocean around the islands was declared a marine reserve.
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Do Military Bases Make Us Safer? ('Truth and Power': Episode 9 Clip)

This week's 'Truth and Power' explores Diego Garcia, the former homeland of 2,500Chagossians who were forcibly evicted to make room for a U.S. military base. But was it legal? Learn more at http://bit.ly/TruthAndPowerPivot.
ABOUT THE SHOW
What happens when private institutions and governments break the public trust? Participant Media’s new investigative documentary series, Truth and Power, executive produced by award-winning filmmaker Brian Knappenberger (The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz) and narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, explores that question while separating fact from misinformation.
The 10-part series highlights the stories of ordinary people going to extraordinary lengths to expose large-scale injustice: from corporations receiving lucrative government contracts for dangerous private prisons to governments using data-gathering technology to scoop up huge amounts of information about their citizens. Using probing interviews, original footage, and newly unearthed documents, the series unpacks the timely issues of security, surveillance, and profiteering in the digital age.
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How to Play & Win 9 Ball Pool : How to Make a Legal Shot in Nine Ball Pool

How to Play & Win 9 Ball Pool : How to Make a Legal Shot in Nine Ball Pool

How to Play & Win 9 Ball Pool : How to Make a Legal Shot in Nine Ball Pool

Learn about legal shots in nine ball pool in this free video lesson for beginner pool players.
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Flight MH370 Is At Diego Garcia - Here's The Proof

PhilipWoods, Pasajero del vuelo MH370 de Malasia, envió una imagen y texto pidiendo AUXILIO, desde la isla "Diego Garcia".
Philip Woods, Passenger On Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Posts Image From island "Diego Garcia" asking for HELP.
A black photo has surfaced, allegedly taken by Philip Wood, an AmericanIBM engineer on the flight.
The image, which appears black, was taken in a dark cell by the IBM engineer. The picture is black because the cell was too dark, but a critical piece of information was embedded in the Exif data, the coordinates to Diego Garcia, where the picture was taken. And it's real, this is not a hoax.
CLICK HERE TO VIEWPHOTO: http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/1395192158752.jpg
The coordinates in the picture indicate that the photo was taken within 3 miles of what...

Do Military Bases Make Us Safer? ('Truth and Power': Episode 9 Clip)

This week's 'Truth and Power' explores Diego Garcia, the former homeland of 2,500Chagossians who were forcibly evicted to make room for a U.S. military base. But was it legal? Learn more at http://bit.ly/TruthAndPowerPivot.
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How to Play & Win 9 Ball Pool : How to Make a Legal Shot in Nine Ball Pool

Learn about legal shots in nine ball pool in this free video lesson for beginner pool players.
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PhilipWoods, Pasajero del vuelo MH370 de Malasia, envió una imagen y texto pidiendo AUXILIO, desde la isla "Diego Garcia".
Philip Woods, Passenger On Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Posts Image From island "Diego Garcia" asking for HELP.
A black photo has surfaced, allegedly taken by Philip Wood, an AmericanIBM engineer on the flight.
The image, which appears black, was taken in a dark cell by the IBM engineer. The picture is black because the cell was too dark, but a critical piece of information was embedded in the Exif data, the coordinates to Diego Garcia, where the picture was taken. And it's real, this is not a hoax.
CLICK HERE TO VIEWPHOTO: http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/1395192158752.jpg
The coordinates in the picture indicate that the photo was taken within 3 miles of what Google officially gives for Diego Garcia.
The picture was posted with the following text:
"I have been held hostage by unknown military personal after my flight was hijacked."
"I work for IBM and managed to hide my cellphone during the hijack. I have been separated from the rest of the passengers, and I am in a cell. My name is Philip Wood. I think I have been drugged as well and cannot think clearly."
The Exif is intact. Exif data gets embedded in every image by every camera, and includes the circumstances under which the photo was taken.
It can be viewed by saving the image to your desktop, and then right clicking it and selecting image properties.
Hit the details tab. You can see that the image was taken on March 18 with an Iphone 5, with the ISO at 3200 and a shutter of 1/15. The coordinates are included in the exif data because the Iphone knows where it is, and the coordinates are for Diego Garcia.
Exif can't be rewritten with common software, it can only be added to in fields such as image credits with some advanced applications.
It can be erased as well but not changed. Photos with the exif intact will hold up in court.
If the Exif is hacked and this is not real, the CIA or a really good hacker did this, which I doubt, I'd say it's probably real.
Type the following coordinates into google earth: 72 25.59265E, 7 18.9713S
FUENTES; (SOURCE):
http://extranotix.blogspot.mx/2014/04/pasajero-del-vuelo-mh370-envio-una.html
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PhilipWoods, Pasajero del vuelo MH370 de Malasia, envió una imagen y texto pidiendo AUXILIO, desde la isla "Diego Garcia".
Philip Woods, Passenger On Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Posts Image From island "Diego Garcia" asking for HELP.
A black photo has surfaced, allegedly taken by Philip Wood, an AmericanIBM engineer on the flight.
The image, which appears black, was taken in a dark cell by the IBM engineer. The picture is black because the cell was too dark, but a critical piece of information was embedded in the Exif data, the coordinates to Diego Garcia, where the picture was taken. And it's real, this is not a hoax.
CLICK HERE TO VIEWPHOTO: http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/1395192158752.jpg
The coordinates in the picture indicate that the photo was taken within 3 miles of what Google officially gives for Diego Garcia.
The picture was posted with the following text:
"I have been held hostage by unknown military personal after my flight was hijacked."
"I work for IBM and managed to hide my cellphone during the hijack. I have been separated from the rest of the passengers, and I am in a cell. My name is Philip Wood. I think I have been drugged as well and cannot think clearly."
The Exif is intact. Exif data gets embedded in every image by every camera, and includes the circumstances under which the photo was taken.
It can be viewed by saving the image to your desktop, and then right clicking it and selecting image properties.
Hit the details tab. You can see that the image was taken on March 18 with an Iphone 5, with the ISO at 3200 and a shutter of 1/15. The coordinates are included in the exif data because the Iphone knows where it is, and the coordinates are for Diego Garcia.
Exif can't be rewritten with common software, it can only be added to in fields such as image credits with some advanced applications.
It can be erased as well but not changed. Photos with the exif intact will hold up in court.
If the Exif is hacked and this is not real, the CIA or a really good hacker did this, which I doubt, I'd say it's probably real.
Type the following coordinates into google earth: 72 25.59265E, 7 18.9713S
FUENTES; (SOURCE):
http://extranotix.blogspot.mx/2014/04/pasajero-del-vuelo-mh370-envio-una.html
http://www.alien-disclosure-group.com/#/philip-wood-ibm-engineer-on-f/4583749488
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Stealing a Nation - How the US Stole the Diego Garcia Island

'Stealing A Nation' (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by Br...

'Stealing A Nation' (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by British Governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base. The tragedy, which falls within the remit of the International Criminal Court as "a crime against humanity", is told by Islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and by British officials who left behind a damning trail of Foreign Office documents.
Before the Americans came, more than 2,000 people lived on the islands in the Indian Ocean, many with roots back to the late 18th century. There were thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a railway and an undisturbed way of life. The islands were, and still are, a British crown colony. In the 1960s, the government of Harold Wilson struck a secret deal with the United States to hand over the main island of Diego Garcia. The Americans demanded that the surrounding islands be "swept" and "sanitized". Unknown to Parliament and to the US Congress and in breach of the United Nations Charter, the British Government plotted with Washington to expel the entire population.
After demonstrating on the streets of Mauritius in 1982, the exiled islanders were given the derisory compensation of less than £3,000 per person by the British government. In the film, former inhabitants Rita Bancoult and Charlesia Alexis tell of how, in accepting the money, they were tricked into signing away their right to return home: "It was entirely improper, unethical, dictatorial to have the Chagossian put their thumbprint on an English legal, drafted document, where the Chagossian, who doesn’t read, know or speak any English, let alone any legal English, is made to renounce basically all his rights as a human being."
Today, the main island of Diego Garcia is America's largest military base in the world, outside the US. There are more than 4,000 troops, two bomber runways, thirty warships and a satellite spy station. The Pentagon calls it an "indispensable platform" for policing the world. It was used as a launch pad for the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.
The truth about the removal of the Chagossians and the Whitehall conspiracy to deny there was an indigenous population did not emerge for another twenty years, when files were unearthed at the Public Record Office, in Kew, by the historian Mark Curtis, John Pilger and lawyers for the former inhabitants of the coral archipelago, who were campaigning for a return to their homeland.
John Pilger first become aware of the plight of the Chagossians in 1982, during the Falklands War: "It was pointed out to me that Britain had sent a fleet to go and save two thousand Falkland Islanders at the other end of the world while two thousand British citizens in islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean had been expelled by British governments and the only difference was that one lot were white and the others were black. The other difference was that the United States wanted the Chagos Islands - and especially Diego Garcia - as a major base. So nothing was said, which tells us something about the ruthlessness of governments, especially imperial governments."

'Stealing A Nation' (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by British Governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base. The tragedy, which falls within the remit of the International Criminal Court as "a crime against humanity", is told by Islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and by British officials who left behind a damning trail of Foreign Office documents.
Before the Americans came, more than 2,000 people lived on the islands in the Indian Ocean, many with roots back to the late 18th century. There were thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a railway and an undisturbed way of life. The islands were, and still are, a British crown colony. In the 1960s, the government of Harold Wilson struck a secret deal with the United States to hand over the main island of Diego Garcia. The Americans demanded that the surrounding islands be "swept" and "sanitized". Unknown to Parliament and to the US Congress and in breach of the United Nations Charter, the British Government plotted with Washington to expel the entire population.
After demonstrating on the streets of Mauritius in 1982, the exiled islanders were given the derisory compensation of less than £3,000 per person by the British government. In the film, former inhabitants Rita Bancoult and Charlesia Alexis tell of how, in accepting the money, they were tricked into signing away their right to return home: "It was entirely improper, unethical, dictatorial to have the Chagossian put their thumbprint on an English legal, drafted document, where the Chagossian, who doesn’t read, know or speak any English, let alone any legal English, is made to renounce basically all his rights as a human being."
Today, the main island of Diego Garcia is America's largest military base in the world, outside the US. There are more than 4,000 troops, two bomber runways, thirty warships and a satellite spy station. The Pentagon calls it an "indispensable platform" for policing the world. It was used as a launch pad for the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.
The truth about the removal of the Chagossians and the Whitehall conspiracy to deny there was an indigenous population did not emerge for another twenty years, when files were unearthed at the Public Record Office, in Kew, by the historian Mark Curtis, John Pilger and lawyers for the former inhabitants of the coral archipelago, who were campaigning for a return to their homeland.
John Pilger first become aware of the plight of the Chagossians in 1982, during the Falklands War: "It was pointed out to me that Britain had sent a fleet to go and save two thousand Falkland Islanders at the other end of the world while two thousand British citizens in islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean had been expelled by British governments and the only difference was that one lot were white and the others were black. The other difference was that the United States wanted the Chagos Islands - and especially Diego Garcia - as a major base. So nothing was said, which tells us something about the ruthlessness of governments, especially imperial governments."

In this video you can find seven little known facts about the British Indian Ocean Territories. Keep watching and subscribe, as more British territories will follow!
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1. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a British overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. The territory comprises the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands – many very small – amounting to a total land area of 60 square kilometres.
2. The only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors, who collectively number around 2,500 (2012 figures).
3. The removal of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago occurred between 1968 and 1973. The Chagossians, then numbering about 2,000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to build a military base there. Today, the exiled Chagossians are still trying to return, arguing that the forced expulsion and dispossession was illegal. The islands are off-limits to Chagossians, casual tourists, and the media.
4. In 1965, the United Kingdom split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches (Des Roches) from the Seychelles to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. The islands were formally established as an overseas territory of the United Kingdom on 8 November 1965. On 23 June 1976, Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches were returned to Seychelles as a result of its attaining independence. On 23 June 2017, the United Nations General Assembly voted in favour of referring the territorial dispute between Mauritius and the UK to the International Court of Justice in order to clarify the legal status of the Chagos Islands archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
5. As a territory of the United Kingdom, the head of state is Elizabeth II. There is no governor appointed to represent the Queen on the territory, as there are no longer any native inhabitants. The head of government is the commissioner and an administrator, all of whom reside in the United Kingdom. The laws of the territory are based on the constitution, which gives the Commissioner full powers to make laws for the territory. As almost all residents of the BIOT are members of the United States military, however, in practice crimes are more commonly charged under United States military law.
6. Camp Justice is a settlement within the US-UK Naval SupportFacility on Diego Garcia, a small, strategically located, isolated island in the Indian Ocean. It acts as the capital of the Overseas Territory. Starting as early as 2004 rumors began to surface that the United States had been using Diego Garcia as a black site for the detention and torture of individuals captured in the "Global War On Terror".
7. The territory is an archipelago of 55 islands, the largest being Diego Garcia, accounting for almost half of the total land area of the territory, which is 60 km². The terrain is flat and low, with most areas not exceeding 2 metres above sea level. The climate is tropical marine; hot, humid, and moderated by trade winds. In 2010 545,000 square kilometres of ocean around the islands was declared a marine reserve.
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In this video you can find seven little known facts about the British Indian Ocean Territories. Keep watching and subscribe, as more British territories will follow!
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Learn, Share, Subscribe
US States & Territories
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More information about the video content bellow:
1. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a British overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. The territory comprises the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands – many very small – amounting to a total land area of 60 square kilometres.
2. The only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors, who collectively number around 2,500 (2012 figures).
3. The removal of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago occurred between 1968 and 1973. The Chagossians, then numbering about 2,000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to build a military base there. Today, the exiled Chagossians are still trying to return, arguing that the forced expulsion and dispossession was illegal. The islands are off-limits to Chagossians, casual tourists, and the media.
4. In 1965, the United Kingdom split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches (Des Roches) from the Seychelles to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. The islands were formally established as an overseas territory of the United Kingdom on 8 November 1965. On 23 June 1976, Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches were returned to Seychelles as a result of its attaining independence. On 23 June 2017, the United Nations General Assembly voted in favour of referring the territorial dispute between Mauritius and the UK to the International Court of Justice in order to clarify the legal status of the Chagos Islands archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
5. As a territory of the United Kingdom, the head of state is Elizabeth II. There is no governor appointed to represent the Queen on the territory, as there are no longer any native inhabitants. The head of government is the commissioner and an administrator, all of whom reside in the United Kingdom. The laws of the territory are based on the constitution, which gives the Commissioner full powers to make laws for the territory. As almost all residents of the BIOT are members of the United States military, however, in practice crimes are more commonly charged under United States military law.
6. Camp Justice is a settlement within the US-UK Naval SupportFacility on Diego Garcia, a small, strategically located, isolated island in the Indian Ocean. It acts as the capital of the Overseas Territory. Starting as early as 2004 rumors began to surface that the United States had been using Diego Garcia as a black site for the detention and torture of individuals captured in the "Global War On Terror".
7. The territory is an archipelago of 55 islands, the largest being Diego Garcia, accounting for almost half of the total land area of the territory, which is 60 km². The terrain is flat and low, with most areas not exceeding 2 metres above sea level. The climate is tropical marine; hot, humid, and moderated by trade winds. In 2010 545,000 square kilometres of ocean around the islands was declared a marine reserve.
More Info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory
Music:
• Aurora B.Polaris - Euphoria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HBacGsBl_U
https://auroraborealischill.bandcamp.com/album/aether-ep
https://open.spotify.com/album/4aJsVkbCovc5vBv7IYLDtq
https://www.facebook.com/AuroraBorealisOfficial
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https://auroraborealischill.bandcamp.com/releases
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This week's 'Truth and Power' explores Diego Garcia, the former homeland of 2,500Chagossians who were forcibly evicted to make room for a U.S. military base. But was it legal? Learn more at http://bit.ly/TruthAndPowerPivot.
ABOUT THE SHOW
What happens when private institutions and governments break the public trust? Participant Media’s new investigative documentary series, Truth and Power, executive produced by award-winning filmmaker Brian Knappenberger (The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz) and narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, explores that question while separating fact from misinformation.
The 10-part series highlights the stories of ordinary people going to extraordinary lengths to expose large-scale injustice: from corporations receiving lucrative government contracts for dangerous private prisons to governments using data-gathering technology to scoop up huge amounts of information about their citizens. Using probing interviews, original footage, and newly unearthed documents, the series unpacks the timely issues of security, surveillance, and profiteering in the digital age.
Watch all-new episodes of Truth and Power every Friday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Pivot.
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This week's 'Truth and Power' explores Diego Garcia, the former homeland of 2,500Chagossians who were forcibly evicted to make room for a U.S. military base. But was it legal? Learn more at http://bit.ly/TruthAndPowerPivot.
ABOUT THE SHOW
What happens when private institutions and governments break the public trust? Participant Media’s new investigative documentary series, Truth and Power, executive produced by award-winning filmmaker Brian Knappenberger (The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz) and narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, explores that question while separating fact from misinformation.
The 10-part series highlights the stories of ordinary people going to extraordinary lengths to expose large-scale injustice: from corporations receiving lucrative government contracts for dangerous private prisons to governments using data-gathering technology to scoop up huge amounts of information about their citizens. Using probing interviews, original footage, and newly unearthed documents, the series unpacks the timely issues of security, surveillance, and profiteering in the digital age.
Watch all-new episodes of Truth and Power every Friday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Pivot.
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Hey loves!
My editor is on a mission trip and I don't have the time to film a sit-down video at the moment, but I am planning to in the next few days. In the me...

Hey loves!
My editor is on a mission trip and I don't have the time to film a sit-down video at the moment, but I am planning to in the next few days. In the meantime, hope this vlog feels like you partied with us for Brandon's sisters birthday!
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Hey loves!
My editor is on a mission trip and I don't have the time to film a sit-down video at the moment, but I am planning to in the next few days. In the meantime, hope this vlog feels like you partied with us for Brandon's sisters birthday!
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Learn about legal shots in nine ball pool in this free video lesson for beginner pool players.
Expert: Richard Garcia
Bio: Richard Garcia has been an avid pool player for the past 25 years and has played in competitive team and singles events since 1993.
Filmmaker: Juan-Diego Garcia

Learn about legal shots in nine ball pool in this free video lesson for beginner pool players.
Expert: Richard Garcia
Bio: Richard Garcia has been an avid pool player for the past 25 years and has played in competitive team and singles events since 1993.
Filmmaker: Juan-Diego Garcia

Diego Garcia Welcome Aboard Package: Arrival & Housing Accomodations

Contact your sponsor with your travel arrangements and any questions you have. Contact " DGCommand.sponsor@fe.navy.mil " to work with Diego Garcia's local CommandSponsor program.

published: 27 May 2014

Protecting the Environment of the British Indian Ocean Territory

The wildlife and environment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) are exceptional. The Territory has the greatest marine biodiversity in the UK and its Overseas Territories, as well as some of the cleanest seas and healthiest reef systems in the world. BIOT is home to the world’s biggest arthropod, the coconut crab, which can reach up to one metre across, with densities on Diego Garcia amongst the highest globally. The outer islands and atolls are colonized by internationally important numbers of seabirds, with many thousands of pairs of sooty terns, brown boobies and red-footed boobies regularly breeding there. Endemic species of coral and reef fish inhabit the c. 4,000 km² of shallow coral reefs, which also support over six times the amount of fish that are found on any other Ind...

published: 25 Aug 2017

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Welcome to Seattle, a city that straddles the modern world and the natural one.
While it’s known for its overcast weather, when the sun comes out in Seattle, you’re in for the perfect photo op, where blue skies and calm seas surround classic architecture and striking modern buildings. Take in a view of the city from the ObservationDeck of Smith Tower, then head down to the waterfront for incredible seafood and harbor cruises.
Visit the world-famous Pike Place Market, home to fresh catches, local produce, and yes, the world’s first Starbucks®. From there, explore the great outdoors at Woodland Park Zoo, full of recreated savannahs and tropical rainforests. If you’re still craving more natural wonders, go to Olympic Nationa...

published: 07 Mar 2013

A gost village in Salomon island - Chagos

The Chagos archipelago, which is part of BIOT (British Indian Ocean Territory), was inhabited until the 70's, when the British leased the atoll of Diego Garcia to the United States to make an airbase.
See www.walkabout.it
The inhabitants who had settled in the archipelago since several centuries before and lived gathering coconuts and extracting the oil where , for security reasons were relocated and deported en masse in their islands of origin: Mauritius.
Currently, the islands were declared a marine park and thanks to their isolation is one of the few remaining untouched paradises on earth.

we found SECRET BEACHES in thailand

we found SECRET BEACHES in thailand
So far on our travels, we have been fortunate enough to experience some of the best beaches in the world.
For me, Koh Kood is the best island in Thailand and the beaches there do not disappoint. Even on a grey, cloudy day, the palm tree lined beaches prove to be utterly stunning and irresistible.
This island has it all and definitely makes it to the top of the pile for must see places in Thailand.
Music -
https://soundcloud.com/ehrling
https://soundcloud.com/imkosmik

published: 06 Apr 2018

Diego García El Cabezo

Trip to the Magical Island of Guimaras

This video is about my trip to a magical island called "Guimaras." This island is located in the Western Visayas region of the Philippians. In this video, I take a pump boat to this magic island and once there, take a jeepney to an amazing resort called "Raymen Beach Resort." While there I dine on the best Guimaras mango there is in the Philippines, as well as eat Suman, a sticky rice cake made of sugar wrapped in banana leaves. Guimaras is known for its great mangos and shakes.

Burundi's tourism struggles after political turmoil

Burundi’s tourism sector is still reeling from the aftermath of a yearlong political crisis. Tourists are shying away from visiting the country and as a result, vendors continue to count millions of losses each day.

published: 28 Apr 2016

Book Review #136 (travel books)-Island of Shame: The Secret History of U.S. Military Bases on Diego

Paris: The iconic Eiffel Tower celebrates its 300 millionth visitor!

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Instantly recognisable the world over, it''s become the emblem of Paris, and of France.On Thurday, the Eiffel Tower marks a major milestone:300 million visitors.Built in 1889 for the World Fair, the IronLady was only meant to be temporary.
Yet today it boasts an impressive resume:With 7 million visitors per year, it''s the most popular fee-paying monument in the world.To mark this momentous occasion, tonight a specially designed light show will illuminate the 324 metres of metal.Concerts are also planned on each floor, combining classical music and electro, a mix of old and new that captures the spirit of this lasting monument.DIego Garcia and FrançoisWIBA...

published: 28 Sep 2017

Diego Garcia island west side sea

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published: 11 Apr 2016

Stunning Mauritius

The important writer Mark Twain once wrote: "Mauritius was created first, then the paradise!" Sandy beaches border azure blue bays. The green sugar cane grass sways in the wind as if it were waves in the ocean.
Spacious tea plantations alternate with beautiful parks. Usually prosperous guests spend their vacation here. But Mauritius is more than just a dream island for the rich and famous. The colonial times are over.
However, the colourful culture is still marked by the former slaves and Indian immigrants. Dances like the "Sega" or the various Creole cuisine make a visit on this amazing island an unforgettable experience. The many species of animals also contribute to it.

The wildlife and environment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) are exceptional. The Territory has the greatest marine biodiversity in the UK and its Overseas Territories, as well as some of the cleanest seas and healthiest reef systems in the world. BIOT is home to the world’s biggest arthropod, the coconut crab, which can reach up to one metre across, with densities on Diego Garcia amongst the highest globally. The outer islands and atolls are colonized by internationally important numbers of seabirds, with many thousands of pairs of sooty terns, brown boobies and red-footed boobies regularly breeding there. Endemic species of coral and reef fish inhabit the c. 4,000 km² of shallow coral reefs, which also support over six times the amount of fish that are found on any other Indian Ocean reef.
This film is aimed at those working in or transiting through the British Indian Ocean Territory. In addition to showing the natural treasures of BIOT it shows and how those in the Territory can help protect and preserve the environment.
This project was made possible with funding from the EU BEST initiative, and is aimed at raising awareness on protecting species and habitats in BIOT.
BEST is a voluntary scheme for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in EU Outermost Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories. The BEST initiative seeks to promote the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of ecosystem services including ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation in the EU outermost regions and overseas countries and territories.

The wildlife and environment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) are exceptional. The Territory has the greatest marine biodiversity in the UK and its Overseas Territories, as well as some of the cleanest seas and healthiest reef systems in the world. BIOT is home to the world’s biggest arthropod, the coconut crab, which can reach up to one metre across, with densities on Diego Garcia amongst the highest globally. The outer islands and atolls are colonized by internationally important numbers of seabirds, with many thousands of pairs of sooty terns, brown boobies and red-footed boobies regularly breeding there. Endemic species of coral and reef fish inhabit the c. 4,000 km² of shallow coral reefs, which also support over six times the amount of fish that are found on any other Indian Ocean reef.
This film is aimed at those working in or transiting through the British Indian Ocean Territory. In addition to showing the natural treasures of BIOT it shows and how those in the Territory can help protect and preserve the environment.
This project was made possible with funding from the EU BEST initiative, and is aimed at raising awareness on protecting species and habitats in BIOT.
BEST is a voluntary scheme for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in EU Outermost Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories. The BEST initiative seeks to promote the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of ecosystem services including ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation in the EU outermost regions and overseas countries and territories.

Seattle Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia

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Welcome to Seattle, a city that straddles the modern world and the natural one.
While it’s kn...

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Welcome to Seattle, a city that straddles the modern world and the natural one.
While it’s known for its overcast weather, when the sun comes out in Seattle, you’re in for the perfect photo op, where blue skies and calm seas surround classic architecture and striking modern buildings. Take in a view of the city from the ObservationDeck of Smith Tower, then head down to the waterfront for incredible seafood and harbor cruises.
Visit the world-famous Pike Place Market, home to fresh catches, local produce, and yes, the world’s first Starbucks®. From there, explore the great outdoors at Woodland Park Zoo, full of recreated savannahs and tropical rainforests. If you’re still craving more natural wonders, go to Olympic National Park a few hours away and meander through its scenic, wooded beauty.
Round out your Seattle sightseeing with Ruby Beach and pick your way through the driftwood scattered across the shore. Look out to the ocean, watch the sunset, and know you’re in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
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While it’s known for its overcast weather, when the sun comes out in Seattle, you’re in for the perfect photo op, where blue skies and calm seas surround classic architecture and striking modern buildings. Take in a view of the city from the ObservationDeck of Smith Tower, then head down to the waterfront for incredible seafood and harbor cruises.
Visit the world-famous Pike Place Market, home to fresh catches, local produce, and yes, the world’s first Starbucks®. From there, explore the great outdoors at Woodland Park Zoo, full of recreated savannahs and tropical rainforests. If you’re still craving more natural wonders, go to Olympic National Park a few hours away and meander through its scenic, wooded beauty.
Round out your Seattle sightseeing with Ruby Beach and pick your way through the driftwood scattered across the shore. Look out to the ocean, watch the sunset, and know you’re in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
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The Chagos archipelago, which is part of BIOT (British Indian Ocean Territory), was inhabited until the 70's, when the British leased the atoll of Diego Garcia to the United States to make an airbase.
See www.walkabout.it
The inhabitants who had settled in the archipelago since several centuries before and lived gathering coconuts and extracting the oil where , for security reasons were relocated and deported en masse in their islands of origin: Mauritius.
Currently, the islands were declared a marine park and thanks to their isolation is one of the few remaining untouched paradises on earth.

The Chagos archipelago, which is part of BIOT (British Indian Ocean Territory), was inhabited until the 70's, when the British leased the atoll of Diego Garcia to the United States to make an airbase.
See www.walkabout.it
The inhabitants who had settled in the archipelago since several centuries before and lived gathering coconuts and extracting the oil where , for security reasons were relocated and deported en masse in their islands of origin: Mauritius.
Currently, the islands were declared a marine park and thanks to their isolation is one of the few remaining untouched paradises on earth.

we found SECRET BEACHES in thailand

we found SECRET BEACHES in thailand
So far on our travels, we have been fortunate enough to experience some of the best beaches in the world.
For me, Koh Kood...

we found SECRET BEACHES in thailand
So far on our travels, we have been fortunate enough to experience some of the best beaches in the world.
For me, Koh Kood is the best island in Thailand and the beaches there do not disappoint. Even on a grey, cloudy day, the palm tree lined beaches prove to be utterly stunning and irresistible.
This island has it all and definitely makes it to the top of the pile for must see places in Thailand.
Music -
https://soundcloud.com/ehrling
https://soundcloud.com/imkosmik

we found SECRET BEACHES in thailand
So far on our travels, we have been fortunate enough to experience some of the best beaches in the world.
For me, Koh Kood is the best island in Thailand and the beaches there do not disappoint. Even on a grey, cloudy day, the palm tree lined beaches prove to be utterly stunning and irresistible.
This island has it all and definitely makes it to the top of the pile for must see places in Thailand.
Music -
https://soundcloud.com/ehrling
https://soundcloud.com/imkosmik

This video is about my trip to a magical island called "Guimaras." This island is located in the Western Visayas region of the Philippians. In this video, I take a pump boat to this magic island and once there, take a jeepney to an amazing resort called "Raymen Beach Resort." While there I dine on the best Guimaras mango there is in the Philippines, as well as eat Suman, a sticky rice cake made of sugar wrapped in banana leaves. Guimaras is known for its great mangos and shakes.

This video is about my trip to a magical island called "Guimaras." This island is located in the Western Visayas region of the Philippians. In this video, I take a pump boat to this magic island and once there, take a jeepney to an amazing resort called "Raymen Beach Resort." While there I dine on the best Guimaras mango there is in the Philippines, as well as eat Suman, a sticky rice cake made of sugar wrapped in banana leaves. Guimaras is known for its great mangos and shakes.

Burundi's tourism struggles after political turmoil

Burundi’s tourism sector is still reeling from the aftermath of a yearlong political crisis. Tourists are shying away from visiting the country and as a result,...

Burundi’s tourism sector is still reeling from the aftermath of a yearlong political crisis. Tourists are shying away from visiting the country and as a result, vendors continue to count millions of losses each day.

Burundi’s tourism sector is still reeling from the aftermath of a yearlong political crisis. Tourists are shying away from visiting the country and as a result, vendors continue to count millions of losses each day.

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Instantly recognisable the world over, it''s become the emblem of Paris, and of France.On Thurday, the Eiffel Tower marks a major milestone:300 million visitors.Built in 1889 for the World Fair, the IronLady was only meant to be temporary.
Yet today it boasts an impressive resume:With 7 million visitors per year, it''s the most popular fee-paying monument in the world.To mark this momentous occasion, tonight a specially designed light show will illuminate the 324 metres of metal.Concerts are also planned on each floor, combining classical music and electro, a mix of old and new that captures the spirit of this lasting monument.DIego Garcia and François WIBAUX
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Yet today it boasts an impressive resume:With 7 million visitors per year, it''s the most popular fee-paying monument in the world.To mark this momentous occasion, tonight a specially designed light show will illuminate the 324 metres of metal.Concerts are also planned on each floor, combining classical music and electro, a mix of old and new that captures the spirit of this lasting monument.DIego Garcia and François WIBAUX
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Stunning Mauritius

The important writer Mark Twain once wrote: "Mauritius was created first, then the paradise!" Sandy beaches border azure blue bays. The green sugar cane grass s...

The important writer Mark Twain once wrote: "Mauritius was created first, then the paradise!" Sandy beaches border azure blue bays. The green sugar cane grass sways in the wind as if it were waves in the ocean.
Spacious tea plantations alternate with beautiful parks. Usually prosperous guests spend their vacation here. But Mauritius is more than just a dream island for the rich and famous. The colonial times are over.
However, the colourful culture is still marked by the former slaves and Indian immigrants. Dances like the "Sega" or the various Creole cuisine make a visit on this amazing island an unforgettable experience. The many species of animals also contribute to it.

The important writer Mark Twain once wrote: "Mauritius was created first, then the paradise!" Sandy beaches border azure blue bays. The green sugar cane grass sways in the wind as if it were waves in the ocean.
Spacious tea plantations alternate with beautiful parks. Usually prosperous guests spend their vacation here. But Mauritius is more than just a dream island for the rich and famous. The colonial times are over.
However, the colourful culture is still marked by the former slaves and Indian immigrants. Dances like the "Sega" or the various Creole cuisine make a visit on this amazing island an unforgettable experience. The many species of animals also contribute to it.

Stealing a Nation - How the US Stole the Diego Garcia Island

'Stealing A Nation' (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by Br...

'Stealing A Nation' (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by British Governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base. The tragedy, which falls within the remit of the International Criminal Court as "a crime against humanity", is told by Islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and by British officials who left behind a damning trail of Foreign Office documents.
Before the Americans came, more than 2,000 people lived on the islands in the Indian Ocean, many with roots back to the late 18th century. There were thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a railway and an undisturbed way of life. The islands were, and still are, a British crown colony. In the 1960s, the government of Harold Wilson struck a secret deal with the United States to hand over the main island of Diego Garcia. The Americans demanded that the surrounding islands be "swept" and "sanitized". Unknown to Parliament and to the US Congress and in breach of the United Nations Charter, the British Government plotted with Washington to expel the entire population.
After demonstrating on the streets of Mauritius in 1982, the exiled islanders were given the derisory compensation of less than £3,000 per person by the British government. In the film, former inhabitants Rita Bancoult and Charlesia Alexis tell of how, in accepting the money, they were tricked into signing away their right to return home: "It was entirely improper, unethical, dictatorial to have the Chagossian put their thumbprint on an English legal, drafted document, where the Chagossian, who doesn’t read, know or speak any English, let alone any legal English, is made to renounce basically all his rights as a human being."
Today, the main island of Diego Garcia is America's largest military base in the world, outside the US. There are more than 4,000 troops, two bomber runways, thirty warships and a satellite spy station. The Pentagon calls it an "indispensable platform" for policing the world. It was used as a launch pad for the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.
The truth about the removal of the Chagossians and the Whitehall conspiracy to deny there was an indigenous population did not emerge for another twenty years, when files were unearthed at the Public Record Office, in Kew, by the historian Mark Curtis, John Pilger and lawyers for the former inhabitants of the coral archipelago, who were campaigning for a return to their homeland.
John Pilger first become aware of the plight of the Chagossians in 1982, during the Falklands War: "It was pointed out to me that Britain had sent a fleet to go and save two thousand Falkland Islanders at the other end of the world while two thousand British citizens in islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean had been expelled by British governments and the only difference was that one lot were white and the others were black. The other difference was that the United States wanted the Chagos Islands - and especially Diego Garcia - as a major base. So nothing was said, which tells us something about the ruthlessness of governments, especially imperial governments."

'Stealing A Nation' (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by British Governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base. The tragedy, which falls within the remit of the International Criminal Court as "a crime against humanity", is told by Islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and by British officials who left behind a damning trail of Foreign Office documents.
Before the Americans came, more than 2,000 people lived on the islands in the Indian Ocean, many with roots back to the late 18th century. There were thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a railway and an undisturbed way of life. The islands were, and still are, a British crown colony. In the 1960s, the government of Harold Wilson struck a secret deal with the United States to hand over the main island of Diego Garcia. The Americans demanded that the surrounding islands be "swept" and "sanitized". Unknown to Parliament and to the US Congress and in breach of the United Nations Charter, the British Government plotted with Washington to expel the entire population.
After demonstrating on the streets of Mauritius in 1982, the exiled islanders were given the derisory compensation of less than £3,000 per person by the British government. In the film, former inhabitants Rita Bancoult and Charlesia Alexis tell of how, in accepting the money, they were tricked into signing away their right to return home: "It was entirely improper, unethical, dictatorial to have the Chagossian put their thumbprint on an English legal, drafted document, where the Chagossian, who doesn’t read, know or speak any English, let alone any legal English, is made to renounce basically all his rights as a human being."
Today, the main island of Diego Garcia is America's largest military base in the world, outside the US. There are more than 4,000 troops, two bomber runways, thirty warships and a satellite spy station. The Pentagon calls it an "indispensable platform" for policing the world. It was used as a launch pad for the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.
The truth about the removal of the Chagossians and the Whitehall conspiracy to deny there was an indigenous population did not emerge for another twenty years, when files were unearthed at the Public Record Office, in Kew, by the historian Mark Curtis, John Pilger and lawyers for the former inhabitants of the coral archipelago, who were campaigning for a return to their homeland.
John Pilger first become aware of the plight of the Chagossians in 1982, during the Falklands War: "It was pointed out to me that Britain had sent a fleet to go and save two thousand Falkland Islanders at the other end of the world while two thousand British citizens in islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean had been expelled by British governments and the only difference was that one lot were white and the others were black. The other difference was that the United States wanted the Chagos Islands - and especially Diego Garcia - as a major base. So nothing was said, which tells us something about the ruthlessness of governments, especially imperial governments."

The AttorneyGeneral of Ecuador, Diego GarcíaCarrión, gave a presentation at Columbia Law School in connection with the launch of a book on the legal disputes between Chevron and Ecuador. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, provided commentary. To learn more, visit the event page: http://ccsi.columbia.edu/2015/10/08/ecuadors-attorney-general-speaks-on-chevron-v-ecuador/
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The AttorneyGeneral of Ecuador, Diego GarcíaCarrión, gave a presentation at Columbia Law School in connection with the launch of a book on the legal disputes between Chevron and Ecuador. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, provided commentary. To learn more, visit the event page: http://ccsi.columbia.edu/2015/10/08/ecuadors-attorney-general-speaks-on-chevron-v-ecuador/
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Flight MH370 Is At Diego Garcia - Here's The Proof

PhilipWoods, Pasajero del vuelo MH370 de Malasia, envió una imagen y texto pidiendo AUXILIO, desde la isla "Diego Garcia".
Philip Woods, Passenger On Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Posts Image From island "Diego Garcia" asking for HELP.
A black photo has surfaced, allegedly taken by Philip Wood, an AmericanIBM engineer on the flight.
The image, which appears black, was taken in a dark cell by the IBM engineer. The picture is black because the cell was too dark, but a critical piece of information was embedded in the Exif data, the coordinates to Diego Garcia, where the picture was taken. And it's real, this is not a hoax.
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The coordinates in the picture indicate that the photo was taken within 3 miles of what Google officially gives for Diego Garcia.
The picture was posted with the following text:
"I have been held hostage by unknown military personal after my flight was hijacked."
"I work for IBM and managed to hide my cellphone during the hijack. I have been separated from the rest of the passengers, and I am in a cell. My name is Philip Wood. I think I have been drugged as well and cannot think clearly."
The Exif is intact. Exif data gets embedded in every image by every camera, and includes the circumstances under which the photo was taken.
It can be viewed by saving the image to your desktop, and then right clicking it and selecting image properties.
Hit the details tab. You can see that the image was taken on March 18 with an Iphone 5, with the ISO at 3200 and a shutter of 1/15. The coordinates are included in the exif data because the Iphone knows where it is, and the coordinates are for Diego Garcia.
Exif can't be rewritten with common software, it can only be added to in fields such as image credits with some advanced applications.
It can be erased as well but not changed. Photos with the exif intact will hold up in court.
If the Exif is hacked and this is not real, the CIA or a really good hacker did this, which I doubt, I'd say it's probably real.
Type the following coordinates into google earth: 72 25.59265E, 7 18.9713S
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Stealing a Nation - How the US Stole the Diego Garcia Island

'Stealing A Nation' (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of the Chagos Islands...

Stealing a Nation - How the US Stole the Diego Garcia Island

'Stealing A Nation' (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by British Governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base. The tragedy, which falls within the remit of the International Criminal Court as "a crime against humanity", is told by Islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and by British officials who left behind a damning trail of Foreign Office documents.
Before the Americans came, more than 2,000 people lived on the islands in the Indian Ocean, many with roots back to the late 18th century. There were thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a railway and an undisturbed way of life. The islands were, and still are, a British crown colony. In the 1960s, the government of Harold Wilson struck a secret deal with the United States to hand over the main island of Diego Garcia. The Americans demanded that the surrounding islands be "swept" and "sanitized". Unknown to Parliament and to the US Congress and in breach of the United Nations Charter, the British Government plotted with Washington to expel the entire population.
After demonstrating on the streets of Mauritius in 1982, the exiled islanders were given the derisory compensation of less than £3,000 per person by the British government. In the film, former inhabitants Rita Bancoult and Charlesia Alexis tell of how, in accepting the money, they were tricked into signing away their right to return home: "It was entirely improper, unethical, dictatorial to have the Chagossian put their thumbprint on an English legal, drafted document, where the Chagossian, who doesn’t read, know or speak any English, let alone any legal English, is made to renounce basically all his rights as a human being."
Today, the main island of Diego Garcia is America's largest military base in the world, outside the US. There are more than 4,000 troops, two bomber runways, thirty warships and a satellite spy station. The Pentagon calls it an "indispensable platform" for policing the world. It was used as a launch pad for the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.
The truth about the removal of the Chagossians and the Whitehall conspiracy to deny there was an indigenous population did not emerge for another twenty years, when files were unearthed at the Public Record Office, in Kew, by the historian Mark Curtis, John Pilger and lawyers for the former inhabitants of the coral archipelago, who were campaigning for a return to their homeland.
John Pilger first become aware of the plight of the Chagossians in 1982, during the Falklands War: "It was pointed out to me that Britain had sent a fleet to go and save two thousand Falkland Islanders at the other end of the world while two thousand British citizens in islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean had been expelled by British governments and the only difference was that one lot were white and the others were black. The other difference was that the United States wanted the Chagos Islands - and especially Diego Garcia - as a major base. So nothing was said, which tells us something about the ruthlessness of governments, especially imperial governments."

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1. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a British overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. The territory comprises the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands – many very small – amounting to a total land area of 60 square kilometres.
2. The only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors, who collectively number around 2,500 (2012 figures).
3. The removal of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago occurred between 1968 and 1973. The Chagossians, then numbering about 2,000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to build a military base there. Today, the exiled Chagossians are still trying to return, arguing that the forced expulsion and dispossession was illegal. The islands are off-limits to Chagossians, casual tourists, and the media.
4. In 1965, the United Kingdom split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches (Des Roches) from the Seychelles to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. The islands were formally established as an overseas territory of the United Kingdom on 8 November 1965. On 23 June 1976, Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches were returned to Seychelles as a result of its attaining independence. On 23 June 2017, the United Nations General Assembly voted in favour of referring the territorial dispute between Mauritius and the UK to the International Court of Justice in order to clarify the legal status of the Chagos Islands archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
5. As a territory of the United Kingdom, the head of state is Elizabeth II. There is no governor appointed to represent the Queen on the territory, as there are no longer any native inhabitants. The head of government is the commissioner and an administrator, all of whom reside in the United Kingdom. The laws of the territory are based on the constitution, which gives the Commissioner full powers to make laws for the territory. As almost all residents of the BIOT are members of the United States military, however, in practice crimes are more commonly charged under United States military law.
6. Camp Justice is a settlement within the US-UK Naval SupportFacility on Diego Garcia, a small, strategically located, isolated island in the Indian Ocean. It acts as the capital of the Overseas Territory. Starting as early as 2004 rumors began to surface that the United States had been using Diego Garcia as a black site for the detention and torture of individuals captured in the "Global War On Terror".
7. The territory is an archipelago of 55 islands, the largest being Diego Garcia, accounting for almost half of the total land area of the territory, which is 60 km². The terrain is flat and low, with most areas not exceeding 2 metres above sea level. The climate is tropical marine; hot, humid, and moderated by trade winds. In 2010 545,000 square kilometres of ocean around the islands was declared a marine reserve.
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Diego Garcia

Diego Garcia is an atoll located south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean. Diego Garcia is the largest of the 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago. Diego Garcia was settled by the French in the 1790s and was transferred to British rule after the Napoleonic Wars. It was one of the "Dependencies" of the British Colony of Mauritius until it was detached for inclusion in the newly created British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in 1965. Between 1968 and 1973, the population of the BIOT was removed to Mauritius and The Seychelles, following which the United States built a large naval and military base on Diego Garcia, which has been in continuous operation ever since. As of March 2015, Diego Garcia is the only inhabited island of the BIOT; the population is composed of military personnel and supporting contractors.

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Protecting the Environment of the British Indian Ocean Territory

The wildlife and environment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) are exceptional. The Territory has the greatest marine biodiversity in the UK and its Overseas Territories, as well as some of the cleanest seas and healthiest reef systems in the world. BIOT is home to the world’s biggest arthropod, the coconut crab, which can reach up to one metre across, with densities on Diego Garcia amongst the highest globally. The outer islands and atolls are colonized by internationally important numbers of seabirds, with many thousands of pairs of sooty terns, brown boobies and red-footed boobies regularly breeding there. Endemic species of coral and reef fish inhabit the c. 4,000 km² of shallow coral reefs, which also support over six times the amount of fish that are found on any other Indian Ocean reef.
This film is aimed at those working in or transiting through the British Indian Ocean Territory. In addition to showing the natural treasures of BIOT it shows and how those in the Territory can help protect and preserve the environment.
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Visit the world-famous Pike Place Market, home to fresh catches, local produce, and yes, the world’s first Starbucks®. From there, explore the great outdoors at Woodland Park Zoo, full of recreated savannahs and tropical rainforests. If you’re still craving more natural wonders, go to Olympic National Park a few hours away and meander through its scenic, wooded beauty.
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A gost village in Salomon island - Chagos

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A gost village in Salomon island - Chagos

The Chagos archipelago, which is part of BIOT (British Indian Ocean Territory), was inhabited until the 70's, when the British leased the atoll of Diego Garcia to the United States to make an airbase.
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The inhabitants who had settled in the archipelago since several centuries before and lived gathering coconuts and extracting the oil where , for security reasons were relocated and deported en masse in their islands of origin: Mauritius.
Currently, the islands were declared a marine park and thanks to their isolation is one of the few remaining untouched paradises on earth.

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Stealing a Nation - How the US Stole the Diego Garcia Island

'Stealing A Nation' (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by British Governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base. The tragedy, which falls within the remit of the International Criminal Court as "a crime against humanity", is told by Islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and by British officials who left behind a damning trail of Foreign Office documents.
Before the Americans came, more than 2,000 people lived on the islands in the Indian Ocean, many with roots back to the late 18th century. There were thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a railway and an undisturbed way of life. The islands were, and still are, a British crown colony. In the 1960s, the government of Harold Wilson struck a secret deal with the United States to hand over the main island of Diego Garcia. The Americans demanded that the surrounding islands be "swept" and "sanitized". Unknown to Parliament and to the US Congress and in breach of the United Nations Charter, the British Government plotted with Washington to expel the entire population.
After demonstrating on the streets of Mauritius in 1982, the exiled islanders were given the derisory compensation of less than £3,000 per person by the British government. In the film, former inhabitants Rita Bancoult and Charlesia Alexis tell of how, in accepting the money, they were tricked into signing away their right to return home: "It was entirely improper, unethical, dictatorial to have the Chagossian put their thumbprint on an English legal, drafted document, where the Chagossian, who doesn’t read, know or speak any English, let alone any legal English, is made to renounce basically all his rights as a human being."
Today, the main island of Diego Garcia is America's largest military base in the world, outside the US. There are more than 4,000 troops, two bomber runways, thirty warships and a satellite spy station. The Pentagon calls it an "indispensable platform" for policing the world. It was used as a launch pad for the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.
The truth about the removal of the Chagossians and the Whitehall conspiracy to deny there was an indigenous population did not emerge for another twenty years, when files were unearthed at the Public Record Office, in Kew, by the historian Mark Curtis, John Pilger and lawyers for the former inhabitants of the coral archipelago, who were campaigning for a return to their homeland.
John Pilger first become aware of the plight of the Chagossians in 1982, during the Falklands War: "It was pointed out to me that Britain had sent a fleet to go and save two thousand Falkland Islanders at the other end of the world while two thousand British citizens in islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean had been expelled by British governments and the only difference was that one lot were white and the others were black. The other difference was that the United States wanted the Chagos Islands - and especially Diego Garcia - as a major base. So nothing was said, which tells us something about the ruthlessness of governments, especially imperial governments."

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